My son was elite at soccer, got full scholarship offers to places like Michigan and Umass etc......we drove around the entire country while he played, one of his teammates was drafted to the MLS Vancouver team, Nico Djorjovic (Sp?)..... I love soccer, but the best thing I did when he was younger was make him use BOTH FEET, and that even in higher levels is not common. I think just like in Basketball there are 3 important elements 1. Game IQ 2. Skills 3. Athleticism You can be elite with just the first 2, but if you are missing either one of those you are not going to be a great player. DD
Black Americans, Chinese, Filipinos and eastern Europeans make up the vast majority of basketballs global base, be careful with those stones lol
True. But also true: If you take 100 people that grew up in poverty, how many of them will find a "good path"? Just because you can, doesn't mean you will. Just because you don't, doesn't mean you "deserved" it. Be careful of the "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" mentality. Because "most" people that worked hard for what they got, had some sort of advantage that folks in poverty didn't get. Many folks that do work hard, never get out of poverty. Anyway, back to your regularly scheduled programing.
So true, we don't have equal opportunity in the USA, people are dealing with crushing poverty - we need to fix that. In soccer we were at a big club here in Austin, but I hated the coaching it was just long ball kick and run, and we were paying 5k a year for this crap. I started looking around when he was 12, and we found a small central American dominated team coached by a woman from Columbia - who played at UT. She was amazing the team was mostly hispanic, with kids from Mexico, Honduras, Costa Rica etc, and it was a vastly different family like atmosphere, after 1 practice my son was like....."this is like playing at Brazil" so many tricks guys with amazing footwork etc....no longer was my son screamed at for trying a trick in games or practices but encouraged....we started KILLING all the other clubs.....even the expensive ones......most of the kids on the team couldn't pay, so Some of us volunteered to pay a little more to help them - and make sure our team was good. Eventually after about 3 years the club was bought by a bigger club and we ended up at the best club in Austin Cap City and went undefeated in the highest division, premier- lost in the quarterfinals of the USA championship in South Carolina. What a great time and team - had a German coach who was once at Arsenal, and we pressed all over the field and just had a great season - should have won the whole thing but you can't press well in the 4th game in 3 days....and Pepe and Dallas FC took advantage and whupped us. The point being - PAY FOR PLAY SUCKS - we need the High Schools to have better coaching so soccer can thrive here in the USA. DD
I'm joking that socioeconomics is no reason to stay stuck playing soccer... Ain't nobody talking about bootstraps
Anytime you can poke fun at soccer, I support that! But as you can see, I detest the "bootstraps" argument as it's usually just folks just getting all judgy.
